On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 04:20:44PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Sigh. It's in Posix. It is in latest POSIX but latest POSIX is not in Solaris. > I've seen a lot of "modern" constructs in the Shell scripts of git > (not least of all the eval hackery that is currently used instead of > this), so do you actually have positive knowledge that the existing > git stuff runs fine on such systems, and this wouldn't? I can't say for sure for every corner case but for the most important stuff the answer is "yes". If you have specific doubts about some construct you may ask me for that. Then I would check. > I don't have access to Solaris systems, so I have to take your word on > it, but I find it somewhat surprising that they would not follow Posix > here. Nowadays you can download it for free if you like to test with it. Robert -- Robert Schiele Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@xxxxxxxxx "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."
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